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Stockh,' , lm, Was — acceded to, with some modifica tion, as were all the 'others. 1 Past; tipon the first mentfain in that House, the : Gentleman particularly concerned lied challenged in: (Nita, ;eel bad since been in office. The Right, 1 Hite, Gantleman had put the charaaer. of .Lord: Hutchinson oat of , the question, but introduced Zanier, that of the idle traveller, and, In. fad; was Vibhiing as% .e , the Crinatitution. If it - had-been said the produdion of the Paper would be incom e iient to the 'public service, that would be plain and i ntelligible. Upon the principl e the n l a id d own , a 4 cretary of State, and a Minister at a Foreign Court, light deprive • this Honse of all inforthatien. which 'They might think fit 'to conceal, by having it trans -1 tented hi a pin -ate letter.—lt was time to put a %tope() this praCtice. •.'is TIIOMiIS TURTON contended that. all peeedents were against the prosin&lon of Papers relating t o a confidential Conversation ' with Sove !,eigns• He an commended -the resistance. made by the Secretary of State in the preSent instaie:e. Is ' t a , ( 1 DENMARK. . , the. by a res'erve of this kind that the disposi te . • • , us ef Sovereigns and their Ministers to hold con- Note from M. R ....IS rto Lord Visc. ilowleK, March 9, 030 7 . tsi st , • • tial euminunicat ems with 'us could be preseired.. l The Undersigned Charge-d'Affaires of his IVlajes- Ile w as rea t i e t o vote. for the produaion of all Papert ty ,the King of Denmark, in transmitting in due tune 1 1 'teehlry to the justifi ca ti on of the late Ministers, to his Court the Note by which his Excellency Vis itLote the charge s preferred against them throughout count. Howick acquainted bhp, on the loth of Ja t_,'•ec°'-11111-y.; lint he would not consent to the pro- nuary, with the Order in Council issued•by his' Bri eataion of any, Papers not in themselves proper to be tannic Majesty, ,prohibiting all commerce, between roduced, 'and ctilled for 'only front mere party me- the different ports of the Enemy and those subjeei -,!'.'e,s• He professed a great peraonal esteem for the to the influence .of the French Government, foresaw .040Uil; Lord who was partieultirly interested -in the at that thee the deep and painful inspreision Which preleetion of the Paper prim eipally alluded to, and that Order could not fail to produce upon the Court 11 e nierefo're lamented the more, that the *Noble . of Dentnark. Lield had disclosed , as much as he had done. ' He bas this moment received its orderS, to. ex- 1:1r, f • Viiii se:F-4D in a short IC!ply 'adverted to press to the Ministers of Iris Briemnie Majesty the iiti ` t i o 'lt.. eleseeees made to'the produaion of . the mi.: surprise and grief vviii•cle . the Court of the, Under e„••.•',, Of Lehi eluteliinson's colieersation with the signed leis felt •in taking notice of a resolutiou e refhparor of Russia. - ' The Baehr Hon, Secretaryhhad which, bonded on i principle in 'tacit . inadmissible, ••aine the to M?. Adair's liission to St. Petersbergh, • attacks . 011 e of the chief sources of the commercial le s ,," . te cross cointtninication, as the _Right Hon. prosperity of Detimark, : and seems tc., give a blow, as :• 1 7,ficirtan called it, which the Right:Hon.. Gentle. direct as it is unprovoked,. to her most sacred rights ,i .i " , '' HO,. happily elueithited 1 .):' crossing his zingers; mid the 1 reaties valuell connect her with ,Oreat Bri ye, °, ll vise! neh. her the pleasaetryor the iii: hi Hon. twin. rh has .received the orders of Ills Court, to se re s tillseta u , nos Chet of those who laughed With hint. detail to. hits Britannic nuesty's Government the ii • L h . 11tetit lion. Gentlealan very poinponsly an- fatal consequences of this measure, and finally to re, I7 ,, ,u s weed ins determinaiion to stand by and to pro- quire itestappression. , h . . . , r , tits regular diplon iiitie I‘linhilers ;' that hi, h pro- 'fite Un,ftsrsigned, in .ecquitting hinisell of these 4. 4 'cm weelti hot be te:-seirted from, by. gran ( toga Orders to his Excellency Viscount Howick, takes, 4. s P"telt. thee the King's accredited IVliiiisier, Lord the liberty of demanding from hint all the eerieus at :(rg4qi. Gower, whom. lie (Mr. I'Vhitbrt?: l 6) r e - j tention which the importance of the obits6t iequires, Lleci al touch ~i' those who Viretessed most relied fur this exposition ; v high will be dictated .by that te hint en tiie other side.' Lth'd G. L. 'Gower had • feitikness end moderation (worthy of aleindependent '''' wed the dispatch in question from Lord Lint. ; Cos ern mern, and one trieodly to Great .11ritain,) by Ittes e e and transmitted it' in an official Turin. The which the Court of Denmark:: has - been " constantly le6tion of cross-corrnminieation and double diplo- Hanaled in her , proceedings and discussions with Sisy, could not therefore apply. Lerd Hetchinson i that of London, • . ' ~t, e recalled, it was true, on the . 7th May, 'from Ins l ()foll Coates, whose duty and interest it is to I siott to Prussia, and he had never been an 'acere- defend the rights'of neutrality, that of the Under :teLl elinister to the Cow I of Russia. Bet lie was signed is callaci upon to do so .oo this occasion ;tot - dinar) , ti av eller, and i:illy Arnbassador would. have more particular! t, as well by its situation, as by Teel) heund to transmit, and ally - Secretary of State: the nature of the Order in. Council in qoeStion.---. Y,halit to con,:eive, it his duty to .:trend to, a coat It is, agetiest her interests principally' that it is di -•.eleation from such an authotity ut the natureof +het ' reefed; :her subjects chiefly will suffer by its con, 'flailed te. The dispatch of Lord fiutellinsiin t,tined, et,CII4.eOCCS. • AIIIIOSI. exclusively iu possession of the r the Euip e rer ot Russ:v.l'S OWn declaration, that he atlyantageous coasting trade; bet Ween the different ~,rd made the peace of Tilsit under the ,iulluetice of ports which will hencetorward become jnaccessible.to 'ilasolute necessity. I. ;Ite laratidn cOntradicted his • them, they are menaced with the deprivation of a h.l . ajesty'a Speech', which asserted that theTreaty' of branch of their navigation which has occupied until llibit was made not by compulsion, but in a moment i the present time lieuttreds of vessels, thousands ofssil °l. despondency. His Atijesty's Declaration, at the ors and industrious workmen, and considerable capi 'etene time expremcd'a hope, that on refieetion, the ithis. Henceforth, the Mediterranean e:ill, for the most 11 ,41 Zeteer of Ii would return to his former senti- part, be shut against' their enterprizes : a voyaze, fonts acid pritleiplee. 'Phis invitation to the Empe- • from Holland .to France, Irons Italy to Spain, front s i ete ,",! llessia,' to desert • a Treaty he bad just the anise I'owns to the ports of the Mediterranean, ' l / 4 34 , slimed a . great levity in the sense that will render their vessels and their cargoes subjea gifQ ~,, . 8 ' Wilt) .expressed 'it entertained of the sa- to confiscation. Excluded from the ,greatest . 1,4 a cre c i p „.... , ... tra ,, os of the obligation of so solemn a public con- of .the pens of • the. Contieeet of Europe, le is i nt " , and would give but a very unfavourable wished that - they should renounce, not only the con-, ~,yressitin of their fideliters in adhering to such en. siderable adventeges which the neutrality of their flag !:',eineitts, when coritracted' by tbetuselVes-I•No, insures them in Carrying on the coasting trade, but 2°. , f'rom the o th er sicie).., Certainly, when a SOVe- also the continuance of to essential part of their diret‘lt i ' l e i l , {4 . ll Was illVitai to desert itnmediately ( • hgations - and legitimate commerce with the ports ebeve-men iildft Ile had but the moment befol e entered Imo, the. tioned. After having sold the produce of their eoun.- 1 1 ,?retwe was, that those who gave the in :itation try,_ planlis, fish, .or corn, in one of the northern 111 4 ° but little regard.for stile faith of treaties. The ports of Holland, . France,' or. Spain, they will be to ot i ol.l s which lie had seibmitted were designed not obliged to return•in ballast, . because they will not Promote party purposes, nor yet for the more re- be allowed to seek , in the southern ports of those • i lt4lable intitive of the justifieatiou of friends, but countries, and of Italy, . such, tucrotiandize as - th e e r a t e'reitt Pu blic purpose, that of ascertaining whether countries of the NprO have occasion fur, mid which e 'lot his Majesty's Ministers had n cg l e 6t e d an y , f a - can alone produce returns sufficiently adveutageous tyrQuralsieoppertunityol restoring peace to the Coun- to reimburse the expellees at their voyages.. In ~...,I).lpe rs of the setn e d escr ip t i on as that novit most order to pcocut•e salt, wines, brandy, and 9d, it will ittirt te ularly called for, and mo s t essentially neces- .be necessary fur then to sail from Danish !torts eb r t Y to the purpose be had in view, had been the most part in ballast, itt order to fetch th e m frompr ''',°ethl without reserve o n the imp ea chment the ports in the Meliterreeeau, if they do not p re f er , o f ' eClitlistets subseouent to the peace of Utrecht. which, According .te all appearance will be the case, i iin t , 'tight Hon. 6entleman should not conr.ne to to renotniceeitogether a ;tattle which wo u ld . h en ce: ' -'e s k public doctiments . se 'essential and important, forward become, a ruiitotta speculation. • • •-l i c l l c , i t .. ll e gothel that they were mere private comtnu-, . Arid . lioe , ceil this subject, 4 ills I) mutt Majesty oiler " ()4 s• fi feared the neeletl of • the litissian be deprived of tot :hof , 41 their legiten.iie trptiie, at one of the ediatin would proVe one of the must .lead- ,principal hrancties of their industry ,i ~By what right rste in the `'' " " policyof "- • ' ..i. ; - 4 1, tali they be sto ) eel in the earseit of a /C.lced4l4 oC it ' le this Country. With 1 5p,,.. ‘ 1 i 1 I le usutatic es of assistance and eooperation said to I se e • cupation, the esereise of winch is guaranteed to . • . 1v "-.ti to the. Ali* .• d the ' • iof th • COn tingtin, - , les, an an is a e. - them hy the public law of netione, ,and jay the Sa , . . lie sal °lt which that aid was to ha ae been given, cred.feho at treattese which insere to,l)entnerk, on " tis "''d ' • 'f .rel t I-1 n'G- il -roan wnni , .. that i the ~.. 1 o . ... n e .. the part of Great Britain, the unliinited liberty of re . e gee se , . s . . ~, ..,.., • , 1 t ein, tes , sto trial, the webs , e , putt' g 9 against , the seas in all cases in which Denmark tem not her self consented, by express stipulations, to renounce Noble L7 r • d `'iyhe 4 l hetore he sat doWn, to esti the , . a . .„ f 1 _ . i,,ht . ) happ y to 1 (!gore{ G. Leveson), whom be should be het' I , tear `the exercise (IT a pai t l o 3ection ,', • again, notwithseinhing the, formal ob- They will be ~ so .deprived, according to a princi there ess lat this was theconcluding hpeech, whether • pie of retilleition, net against I)etimark, tor she has tee - not some error; probably of printing, in never swerved trotnthe strict execution of her Tte.U 2 Oates f . Were three .., 0 some of his dispatches.—Ttiere ties, .or from 11er dutieslow.trts li.'... , nglitiel, but against Al io i.lree tor • instance dated . Qd .September, ~ a thisd. Powee, whose example (..17teat Britain seems 1 ti g h it Was evident instance,; the tenor thAr all could - '°thiav • but too ready, to felloW, in :tinder to render the stipu e L been %Wince on the same day. There -were and the paeitie relationa bettveen °More dated ' • 14141 e hie the eth of Septernbar, in which the States suborstillaita• to a right of wet:, indefinite In its ,t, onsisteney appeared. principle, ,unlimited in its extent, incelculable in its te e tl rd G RASP:U.4,E GOIPER said, the first of consequences, but completely foreign to aed by no 'tree ritten notes now dated the ocr'September, arts means binding one neutral Power, independent, and Secretaryoteilled by solemn and recent'! rmitte3. dated on.the first, but by an error of the P' ;-- • - the,# gill the others. Of Inc two Leader the date of ' The''.Ull44s:gued has received•, exiPmc,'''.B9rd6l3frol. 2.”4.1 one was - , written on that day, and ihe other his, C;'utl to declare, in its mites, t lat it regards the Oil the 1 'l b is es 1 9tH . date •was aheri-d in i upon which the Order io Coun ehe assurenc 'll .' • .the 1 T :). - .. Blinn:WlC Majesty is toundedens absoltitely pain t in e hee. .rigtit of retaliate); , , Fit at-his ~ .. its . ~. . . addressed es a tided to In note of 28til June, adinissilee, in principle and In its consequences. • aac. to General Hedberg, were elven in a - pri- In` ~ To ,establish this right, it would be necessary to be t ee onferenee by the Emperor of Porssie at Tilsit, - " Which his Imperial - Ma'est ei 's • I hin t ( L o u tG gin by destroying the first notions of , general and e seaem), that notill , j y. s uretG. . public la ,V. It ititist be he:entice' to lays it down as ;ther his f r ie nd i y di , : I ) g., ,it . tilt Ili ' l ha p ; i'e n e d ' lll ,` )u h la a l pr i nci ple, th.dt every Power has a right arbitaa 'ta.itl; satisfied as h : 1 '''' ".' l ' . ln( - n i '' c ''''' ll°ll . l t `' - "g .- : ' rilv to reoutince eligagements, and to ticrcr•rate. , e se. ic.p , es I , 1 e was of ti,e tv.,t-i;t:, and j',1 , ,,ct.: of f ,, , 1 h ti I. - another p ~., "' sons so l emn s ipu e 0 ib soli ot4o, for A y r ":l ti l o es darn:stone 'Siajesi .• . no other reason tient that its relations with a third s seend r rfiREAD With(ll - (',V I.i.i illat MOtiCiil ; the . . • I , . , calltwi 1(.47 '''''ll'l'''' ". Power have changed their ehttraCter. It mug be in '''''soie • D..'" • . h•-- • • •-•s 1 . 1 (ht• ;el haeville l ' 4tr, A 3 ILLUICII,. c, , tltoiiiing .s,, , -.' ~. , - tendert to h iesist that the privileges, interests, and e to -t4 • • . ,,,..,..: le- ' a neutral it • • • wee 4 his N ote to el . D e „iss, ~-. . , , s lsroperly 0, . I, are at the disposition of --... ' • ' n "Zottved i the ' f or • ' • every other Power, 'althOugh comitEled with it by Olle La l e s p t. , .. ...., ~,.6111,-.1114.;C5' Sir J.,NEWPORT -gave notice, that on Friday next he should move for certain Papers, relating to the power txercisectby , the Lord Lieutenant and Coun cil oil:eland, with respect to the volunteering of Ballotted Men from the Militia to the Line, and the Bounties allowed to those Men. . . The CHANCELLOR di:the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that on Friday he should submit certain Resolutions on the subjed of ,the' Exportation of Cotton and Salt. The.seCond reading of the Orders of Council Bill was deferred till Thursday. —Adjourned. P4PERS PRESENTED lilt HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND TO. BOTH HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT. 1 rreattes, es soon as tne course. or events; or the incu nation of that Power should-engage in a war enti:ely foreign to the neutral nation. The' palpable inconsistency and falsehood of such reasoning cannot be equalled but by its Wel conse quentes with respect to society. It ceneot escape the penetration of his Britannic Majesty's Ministers, That a principle, which would render the relations and mutual obligations ,between two countries de pendant ipoi, any acts whatsoever of a third Power, or rather which would constitute a state' of War the Supretne Regulator 'of all ,the relations of human society, would destroy the very basis of that soterety, 'in orderopenly to . sanction the right ,of streogth, and, in the end, to pave the way for that of universal anarchy. This (the Undersigned regrets to avow it) is never- , `Hitless the tendency of the, principle upen which. the reselutionsadepted by the French Gavel Lunen t aeatost the commerce of Great Britain are 'cited, as motives' to induce his Britannic Majesty, to r set aside the Irea tiei subsisting between Etightne and Deilinaik, and especially that of the 17th 'of June, -1801; which guarantees to the latter Power, in the case express ly- fbrese.en, of any maritime war whatever, the en tire,libirty of its commerce, with the ex eeption only of those restrlaienr tnentioned in the third:Ar ticle. This is the -spirit. of a measure, which. upon the r ormuerce of Subjests the most severe wound of which the history of neutrality offrs an example. The Undersigned does,not apprehend that be has Said too much in advancing.this assertion : be .has - Pule soptupesely, entirely toreseeing t hat the French Decree of the 21st if NOtiember, 1806,' tegc. her with all its pernicious' consequences to the commerce of neutrals; will be cited. to invalidate it. ;The Uti-r dersigned would hive esteemed himself lovunate, if he could have avoided the heces.sity of mat.ing a coMparison between the two measures; or of draw ing a parallel hetweeneheir effeCts, more or less per nicious to the commerce, of Denmark : but the weighty and invert:int , natore of the task which be h as to feffit trilpeses tiihrdrity upon him. He will, however, ill - order to make the Ministers of his Bri tannic Mitjeity acquainted . with the measure. of the impression which these two Decrees, in oppe!thiee to each other, must have produced in Denmark, con tent binrieil with stating that, according (tithe ofti dal explanetious which tile Undersigned. has just re-, ceived from his Court, the French Decree does not, as we we.'e led to snivole fiorn its expressions, bear upon all vessels carrying on commerce with Eng. land, but only upon those which, coming from an English port, are desirous of entering a port of France; that it emit% the confiscation of those ves sels only which refuse to submit to the notification Of the Decree at their entry into one of the said putts, or which are desirous of concealing their hav ing lately put into a port of Great Britain that therefore the pro Visions of the French Decree; a great part' of which cannot from their nature be carried . into, effed, have apt es yet caused any sen sible interruption td the commerce of Denmark' with Grea.(Britain: .UACalitinCy V tqf'n Ili;11 and ,!.. 4 "°.o 4 itii London, Ailed) T. R!ST., LI i~ 1$ NOTE from •Lord Viscuutl. - fJowl cx to Mr. RI Jr & ivi,arch I 7 ,11,7. ~F -. Unlersigned must also observe, that the De cree of the e Ist of November, limited as it is in ita application, turns evidrntly againSt France herself and her Allies, or at least'obli : •,tes them to patticipate in the greatest part Of tho evils and annoyance di reacd.against the commerce of neutrals : that it therefore seems to carry_ with it the guarantee of its lenient execution, and probably of its short du , ration. The Undersigned feels it his duty to add, that his Court neverille.is has made urgent rcpresenta z . tons to the French GAlernment aga;nst a Measure, the principle of which it cannot but consider as a direct and manifest violation of its rights : that, far 1 from being willing or able to acquiesce in it, his Court thought that it' emplJyed the best weapons which its situation and the 'justice of its cause forded, when it protested solemnly against the r ib . - . version of principle and the contempt of the Law of Nations of which this Decree gives so fatal an exaMple; • • But the greater the disgust of the Court of the Undersigned at the spirit of the D.:eree or the tat of November, and parmularly at the moti%e alledged for it ju l / 2 tification, namely, that of retaliation, the more profound was its regret on , seeing Greatßri- tain, beriale measure,tollow the footsttps of her enemy, and take advantage of his example to .sanc tion a doctrine, the piiikiple of which Seenis More to be feared in itself, than the more or less enlarged scale, of_ the regulations which determine its effed and extent. The Court of Denmark cannot disseMble her ap prehensions that the Vrench.Government Will reckon among its triumphs, the having engaged England in measurp.s., which, while they justified its own pro ceedings, necessarily wetiltned the ties Of friendship which attached the neutral nations to Great Britain; and that it will find in the Order, in Council of his t. Britannic Majesty a new motive, or at least a pretext, not only for persisting in its fatal measures, and for enforcing their dormant rigour, but also far aogment ing, if possible, its original violence; and completing • the ruin of nations, which until the present time had preserved the blessings and the presperity. 'of peace. The Undersigned , abstains, but too willing from completing the terrible pidure %%'.hicli the spedive of ,such a contest appears to present. Authorized to declare inethe most preeise manner that the Court of . Den Mark can :never acquiesce in any degree in the Order nf counCil of his Britannic Majesty, which has been conimnnicated to the Un dersigned on the inth of January, nor consent that her Vessels should . be treated in conformity to it,. and to protest formally. against its principle and- its consequences ; the Undersigned, however, feels pleasure In transmitting to his Excellency ViScount HOwick„ and in partaking the hopes Of his Court, that his Britannic Majesty will not give eired to the r:solutinn in question; but that, by suppressing it, he will continue and cement the relations of amity and good underStattding Which attach to his interests the court of Denmark, whose constant efforts have been direaed to the observance of her engagetvents and to the peservation of her relations with Great Britain. This hope receives additional vigour from a know. l'Mgc. of the liberal way of thinking and acting of the enlightened Minister to whom the Undersigned l'as the hononr' to address these . representations in favour of neutral rights,' widen. have , already More thtl once fo , lnd in him their advocate. Ittid , ,,r;.= go ivirs.3l has the lien= to abr to his Foreigd Qliice, Marc}, 17, xB,l, The Undersigned, his Majesty's Princ:pal Sevr t « tary of State.f4r - Foreign Atiaits, the lionoar to iolorlo I. Riot,-that he ha. - no ti( in sub mitting-40 his :Majesty's Goveralu-nt his Note of the 9th inst.; and- Altai itlias reeekeet , all atiention which the znagnitude the various and - important considerations which it inttolves, cur tainly require:. It is m • ach tolve wished that the Danish G.)l-,!ro ment, before-it suffered itself to indidge L I I:ie. representations contained in. the above Official l'a;)• had considered with .nore, calioness -the nature d objects of the Decre: of the French Govern:,:e.l, of the 21st of NoveWacr last, and the Order in Council which, in , consequence of , that Decree, ben issued by his Majesty. - The UndersigtA is under, the , necessity of thus calling, in,:the outset, the•attentior 'of the D Minister to the origiwal state of the question ; b;.l. cause M. Rist, in- hirreferenee both. to the • . . of the 21st November, Isofo, an:l to his l.!elaysty's Order in Council, seems to Ilaye in*.once . ivt=cl ILLt tenor and etli!et -of both ; excia,ing U palliating the one, - and- in no less a dc'grce • ing and aggravating the supposed tendency sequences of the other. By the Decree of the 21st November, ,w . Jt upon the falsest allegations ju.it,tut.t.i by the 11 -, ciple of retaliation ) the : Enemyh r, i , rCrutlueJ ti, ~e. dare the British isles in a state of biting at the same tiale ~all conne..t.:.? witfl tn, and all, trading in English ; and by tile S 3 Me instrument, the Prize Courts of i:;-anct., are, di re6ted to enforce these regulations. Neutrals are consqugtitly interci .ted. from ail courte with" Great Britain, an'.: ail trading in be; commodities.-- The French Government, in adopting a measure at once so violent in itself, and of 'such injustice with respea to the consequences, which-musi sarily have been expected to result :rote it, commit ted a manifest a& ,of houile tegres , ,iou (though im mediately dirc44ed against Great Britain) against the rights of every State not engaged in the war, which, if not resisted on their part, must unavoidably de prive them of -the privileges of :t fair neutrality, and must suspend the .operation of treaties termed for the protection of neutral rights, thus fundamentally violated in. their first awl most essential principles.' r ; The injury which would be- sustained by (.4r,cat Britaih, if she Suffered her commerce with foreign nations to, ,be thus interditited, whillt that - Qt Enemy with them,should reimiin unmolested, . manifest, that it, can require no illestration. It ne ver could have beep t resumed that his Majesty would submit to such an, injury, waiting in patient, acquits-. ceuce till. France might thipk proper to attim,i to the, slow'and feeble remonstrances of States not engaged in the War,. or that he should forbear to take iintue, diate steps to, check the.violenee of the Enemy, and to retort upon him the evils of his own injustice. Had his Majsty at once/ determined to exas.i the full measure of retaliation to which he was justly entitled, (and which nothing but the most generotts regard for the commercial interest of neutral Pow,.,s could have. induced him to forego) let. Denmark lc - fled upon the effea which such. a ,detertnitiation would have had upon her commerce, taking- into her consideration at the same time the twatis which Great Britain possesses of enforcing it ; and then let her compare it with the me ore qt forb2arance add lenity which has been adopted. , His. Majesty would unquestionably have been justified' in resortieeto the tellest nicasures of reta liation, in consequence of this unparalleled aggies. 'sion ; and other . PoWers would have had no right to complain, if the King had immediately proceeded to declare all the conntrieS occupied by the EtteMY to be in a state of bleckade . , and to prohibit all irtide in the prodoee of those countries ; for, a's the French Decree expresses it, the law,of nature justifies the employing against the Enemy the same arms whieli he mikes use of. If third parties Sutter from these measures, their demand of reparation must be to-that country which first violates the' establiSlte:d usages of war, and the right of neutral States. The British' Government, howeter, was neither hasty nor- rigorous in its measures. His Majbity waited nearlr two months before he had reeoltr,,, even to the mitigated'measure Of retaliation v. hich a due regard for the dignity of his' Crown 011.1 interests of his subjetls haslatiength ekatied front him. ' Whether in the mean time any such steps were taken by Denmark as were required by the insult which had been offered by the kinemy to her sove reignty and. independence, and the injury done to her neutral, rights, this Government is altogether ignorant. All that is known hero is, that a ;tOrtn,it communication of the Decree of the :et st Nov. wds made by the French Minister at the Court of the answer of the Danish Govern ri rpe...t _as not • pired ibut no intention of resistanc e h a „ pi ,e „.,:d -in say public tlocument,,or in any steps taken by the Danish Government : whilst on. the - other. h:tl)d ,it has obierveda„conduti,not appare n tly c.,il c ui l ta to enforce the respect due to the rights of a noutrAl nation, nor in consistency with. the charade rof a Power determined equally to resist any measn'res af'- feaing these rights, tionu whatever quailer thq Might proceed. The troops which were stationed in Holstein, whilst those of the Allies were near that liontter, have been immediately withdrawn on the approach of the French army; and the general intercourse between this Country and Hustint, never refus e d in 4ny former war, has been the sub;c6t of continuni complaint and remonstranceon the pa rt of tin,t n Ministry. Having made these preliminary observationg, it will u. necessary to enter into a caudid sionate investigation of the general nature etl'ect of the Order in Council of the 7th January, ot the causes which produced it, and of some (Wale ptinci- Pal objects which it had in view. In - doing this, the Undersigned is first led to consider thr:) proba. ble extent of ity operation, as it ;.tifeets the carrying and diret!..t trade of Denmark, and of other Iu Powers ; and this will be the snore net essary with re gard to the latter and more' important thiwripti , .:n of coinmeree, inastnuch as impediment.; are as to be throwa in the way of it b),